Too big to save? Europe in crisis

One of the phrases we repetitively heard during the crisis was ‘too big to fail’ – mostly coming out of Washington. Now as we learn new developments in Europe, the problem is not just that some banks are too big to fail, they are too big to save as well. Some of the European countries like Ireland, Greece and Austria may not be in position to save their banking system on their own even if they want to simply because these banks have debts multple times of GDP of their home countries.

Things are getting really ugly. The only way to reach some solution will be consorted effort by countries like Germany and IMF to bailout troubled economies and their banking systems.

If Euro survives this crisis, Euro as a currency will survive any crisis.

More resources:
The latest Roubini interview on European crisis can be watched here.

About

08 November 2008
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It’s 08Nov08 today. The financial crisis, which started with housing meltdown in US, has unfolded itself massively on global scale. This diary is an attempt to present the events as and when they happen from now onwards. I will try to keep it as factual as possible and looking to update it at least once in a week.
I am not an economist, so hoping to get layman’s common sense perspective on events of the crisis.
Crisis Diary as it unfolds …